Shredded-wheat biscuit.



PATENTED AUG. 25, 1908.

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W. E. WILLIAMS.

SHREDDED WHEAT BISCUIT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 29, 1908.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 25, 1908.

Application filed. January 29, 1908. Serial N o. 413,280.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. WIL- LIAMs, a citizen of' the United States, residing at Chicago, county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements -in Shredded-Wheat Biscuits, of which the following is a specification.

The obj ect of my invention is to produce a preferably flat shredded wheat biscuit which, instead of being compact, dense and harsh, as some have been made in order that they may bear handling and'shipping, shall be of loose or open texture, crisp, and fra ile and` yet capable of withstanding the roug treatment just mentioned. Children, especially, almost invariably dislike the compact bis- 'cuits mentioned, while they are usually especially fond ofthe fragile products made in accordance with this invention.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a plan view of one form of the novel biscuit. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same.

The body 2 of the biscuit consists of. a preferably flat mass of variously curved, overlapped and interlaced cereal shreds, and sur, roundlng this body is a narrow, relatively thin, continuous strip 3, 4 of the same material as the shreds and integrally connected along its inner edge with the central mass of shreds, from which it is in fact usually formed as hereinafter stated. The strips form a sort of frame, preferably in the medial plane of the biscuit, as shown, and when the biscuit is baked this strip or rib though brittle becomesrigid enou h to support and protect the more fragile s eds.

The biscuits may be formed in any suitable Way, but I prefer to make them b first forming a relatively wide, flat sheet o open texture made up of variously curved, interlaced and overlapped shreds in a more or less plastic condition, and thencompressing narrow bands, of the material forming the sheet,

along intersecting lines, preferably alfrightA angles, and dividing these bands longitudinally. In those portions of the fibrous sheet which are compressed to form the bands,"the shreds lose their individuality and become a thin, practically homogeneous ribbon. The sheet is thus divided into biscuits like that shown in the drawings, each consisting of a comparatively loose or open mass entirely surrounded by. an integral,narrow, thin, relatively compact and dense projecting rib 0I' frame which when dried or baked protects the body, although it forms but a small fraction of the entire biscuit.

What I claim is:

1. A biscuit composed of a mass of loosely interlaced and overlapped shreds' integrally united around its entire margin by a narrow .compact mass ofthe same material.

2. An approximately ilat biscuit comosed of a body of curved, interlaced and overapped shreds, forming a loose or open mass, integrally connected on all sides wlth a narrow compact frame, of the same material, in the medial lane ofthe biscuit, protecting the same in andling and during transportation. 1

In Witness hereof I have hereunto subscribed my name on this`24th day of J anuary, 1908, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses. y WILLIAM ERASTUS WILLIAMS.

Witnesses: Y

' J. A. LA BREF.,

R. ROPER. 

